We stayed in Rainbow beach for 2 whole days. the hostel was really good considering it was only $20 a night, we even had a bathroom in the dorm room! on the first day we went on a walk up to a sand blow, which is literally a huge sand dune on top of a cliff, it was a really strange sight but it looked really cool and the sand was really fine and white. we booked ourself on a 1 day fraser island tour the next day but when we got onto the bus we realised that the t...

kroombit... well it's a cattle ranch! we arrived in the evening at about 7pm and were met by it being incredibly cold but nonetheless it was quite a cool place. we gathered around the fire drinking wine until a dinner of beef and veggies was served, whcih was really good after being out in the cold. these people live and work in this place which is all completely open and outdoors, there are goats and horses all over the place- very back to basics. that evening w...

we arrived in Airlie Beach in the evening and went out for a meal with all of the guys we travelled down on the coach with in the bar below our hostel. pretty expensive here for alcohol and such like but it's a really great place. our hostel room holds 8 people and on the first night we were in with a load of malaysians who decided to have a snoring competition which was fun! the next day we went to check in with the company we were sailing around the whitsundays...

sorry i've been lax on updating this, but we arrived in Cairns on the 7th of july. we booked to stay there for 5 days but in hindsight we wouldn't have stayed there that long, it was a great place but there wasn't muych to do unless you're madfe of money- which we're really not! but its a gorgeous place, had a nice lagoon but no beach so me and jim spent a lot of time reading. got really bad bed bugs from the hostel and had to spend $30 on drugs to make me better...

it's amazing how strict they are on getting into singapore, we saw 2 people being escorted off to interview in passport control! first night we stayed in china town in a place called the royal peacock- which was really nice, still no windows though! we went for lunch in a market place when we got there, which was nice and cheap, but i ended up with chicken skin stuffed with chicken skin for one of my portions, the lemon chicken and chilli chicken was scrummy thou...